[mythtv-users] MCE usb remote receiver - a quick note for people with USB 3.0 MB's.

[Andrew Stadt]

I recently put a new front end together (most of the hardware specs were 
posted previous if you happen to care about the details) - the case came 
with a built-in display and ir receiver (based on the vlsystems mplay).  
After much tinkering around I was able to get both  the display and the 
receiver working (for those with a Moneual B320 case can e-mail for 
info) but I found that the receiver had a *very* limited field of 
view/range/sensitivity (or some combination thereof), and the experience 
was greatly degrading the WAF.

I had a spare mceusb (Topseed) and another CommandIR unit kicking 
around.  At the time the for one reason or another I initially used the 
CommandIR unit which while better then the vlsystems receiver still had 
a rather limited angle of reception.

So, I got out my *spare* mceusb unit (which was actually a unit I use on 
my testing systems, so I guess I'll have to replace it - things we do 
for the WAF) plugged it into a spare usb port on the back of the 
machine, pulled my configuration files off a virtually identical system 
(older hardware, but same software configuration (mceusb remote, 
devinput, etc) rebooted and thought everything would work... should have 
know better right.  After several hours of testing, beating the head of 
the wall, etc I was about to give up - pulled the mceusb off another 
frontend, plugged it into the front of the new machine and it worked.  
Defective mceusb right?  No.  Turns out that all my spare ports on the 
back on the new machine were usb 3.0 and for whatever reason, none of 
the three mceusb units I have will work on these ports... they are 
detected, lsub shows them, the right modules are loaded, but they don't 
work.  Not sure what the issue is, but I thought I'd throw it out there 
in case someone else runs into this.  I should probably investigate 
further, but need to go out on the road and make some money, so, added 
to the TODO list.

Cheers,

Andrew.